Hook holding hatband



Nqv. 19, 1940.

HOOK HOLDING HATBAND Filed April 29, 1938 c. F. wALTl-zouR, JR 2,222,096

ATTORNEYS` Patented Nov. 19, 1940 ATS NT FFiCE 'Y Claims.-

This invention relates to detachable holders for fish-hooks, leaders,snap swivels, and files, constructed for support by a hat or similarheadgear that is provided with a crown, and the pri- 3 mary object ofthe invention is to provide such a holder wherein is incorporatedspecially formed hook supports, portions of which are used as detentsfor the holder while other portions thereof are made to receivefish-hooks or similar instruments.

One of the primary aims of the instant invention is the provision of ahook holding hatband that will be cheap to manufacture, strong andrugged in nature, and which will have means for maintaining the band inthe desired position when it is in place on the crown of a hat.

A yet further object of the invention is to provide a fish-hook holderof the aforementioned character that has special hook supports which arecombined with a strip of material in such a manner as to render theentire device light in weight, easy to apply and effective inmaintaining itself against displacement as fish-hooks are moved to andfrom a position on the hook supports.

Minor objects of the invention will appear during the course of thefollowing specication, referring to the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure l is a perspective view of a hook holding hatband showing thesame in` place on a conventional hat and embodying the preferred form ofthis invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary detailed sectional view through thehook holding hatband.

Fig. 3 is a similar View illustrating an embodiment of a modified formof the invention.

Fig. li is a perspective View of a hook support made in accordance withanother modification of 40 the invention; and,

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detailed sectional View through the hook supporttaken on line V--V of Fig. 4.

45 It is known in this art that sh-hook supports of the generalcharacter of that embodying this invention, have been made and usedbefore but many are not satisfactory because of the difficulty ofplacing and removing fish-hooks, leaders, swivels, flies and otherdevices which must be handled while the fisherman is occupied infollowing the sport.

The desire to have the hook holding hatband as light as possible hasalso been met by the instant 55 invention and the production of ahatband at a low cost may be realized when following the concepts ofthis invention.

in the preferred embodiment, the device is attached to a conventionalhat t having the usual brim lll and crown l2. The hatband which isdetachably secured to crown lil of hat El cornprises a strip lil thatmay be of any suitable material, but it has been found desirable to usea fabric strip through which may be passed the wire from which thehereinafter described hook supports are made.

The ends of strip lll have means for securing together the same and thismeans has here been illustrated as an ordinary buckle it, the parts ofwhich may securely hold strip crown l2 of hat il.

The hook supports per se are made of a piece of spring wire that haspreferably been chromium plated or otherwise made rust proof. This pieceof wire is threaded through strip ift in the manner shown in Fig. 2 anda portion intermediate the ends thereof provides a base it rebent uponitself to form a loop 20 which grips strip i4 as illustrated.

One end of the wire used in making the hook supports, is sharpened toform a detent 22 that grips the underlying portion of crown it of hatil. This detent 22 is very short so that destructive action upon the hatwill not take place.

A nger lll is formed at the other end of the wire and this finger isdisposed transversely to strip ill so that the end is near the edge ofstrip lll which is normally above the remaining part of the strip. Thisfinger ifi is bent longitudinally so that the hump 2S is in engagementwith either base it? or portion of strip lilimmediately adjacentthereto. The inherent resiliency of the wire from which the hook supportis made, permits movement of hump lli from engagement with theunderlying members so that a fish-hook or the like til, may have the eyeSt thereof slipped over finger 7.2i-, as illustrated in Fig. l.

The wire from which the hook supports are made is a very strong,resilient piano wire and very little force is necessary to remove orplace hooks 28. When strip ift is in circumscribing position upon crowni2 of hat t, buckle iii may be manipulated to draw detents 22 inwardlyagainst the outer surface of crown li and thus preclude upward movementof strip Ill when a hook 2t is being removed from any one of the severalhook supports carried by strip M.

Fig. 3 embodies the principles of the invention but has a differentspecic structure in that the hook supports is made of two separatepieces icl against -f fill of wire spot welded together. One piece ofstock forms the base 32 while nger 34 is secured to base 32 at 36. Base32 is substantially U-shaped and one end of the stock which forms thesame is clinched as at 38 while the other end thereof extends laterallyfrom strip Ill to form detent All. This detent serves to grip theunderlying portion of crown l2, as before described with respect todetent 22.

A further modification of the hook support that may be used on strip I4is illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5. This support is likewise made of asingle piece of wire that is resilient in character and treated to berust proof. The body 42 of this particular hook support has a circularportion and a diametrically extending part di which terminates in theupturned nger 46 that has a hump 48 thereon which serves in the samemanner as hump 26. A portion of the wire which forms the hook supportshown in Fig. 4, is in the nature of a pin 50 the end of which issharpened as at 52 so as to enter the underlying portion of the hat.This hook support is carried by strip ifi in a manner which will permitits being removed and if a large number of hooks 28 are not desired, anynumber of the hook supports illustrated in Fig. 4 may be pinned directlyto crown i2 of the hat. In fact, this type of hook support may begrouped as desired around crown l2 to carry in particular places anytype of device so that the fisherman will readily know the location of aleader, y, snap swivel, or other type of tackle.

It is understood that hook holding hatbands having physicalcharacteristics other than those illustrated and described might be madewithout departing from the spirit of the invention or scope of theappended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A hook holding hatband comprising a flexible fabric strip adapted tocircumscribe the crown of a hat; means for securing together the end ofsaid strip and for drawing one side thereof against the crown of thehat; a plurality of resilient wire supports mounted on the strip eachadapted to releasably carry a fish-hook or the like; and means integralwith at least one support for piercing the hat for the purposespecified.

2. In a hook holding hatband having a flexible fabric strip adapted tocircumscribe the crown of a hat and means for securing together the endsof said strip and for drawing one side thereof against the crown of thehat; a plurality of resilient wire supports mounted on the strip, eachadapted to releasably carry a fish-hook or the like, each of saidsupports comprising a base threaded through the strip, and a lingerdisposed transversely to the strip with one end thereof yieldablymaintained against the base when the same is in operative position.

3. In a hook holding hatband having a flexible fabric strip adapted tocircumscribe the crown of a hat and means for securing together the endsof said strip and for drawing one side thereof against the crown of thehat; a plurality of resilient wire supports mounted on the strip, eachadapted to releasably carry a fish-hook or the like, each of saidsupports comprising a base threaded through the strip, a finger disposedtransversely to the strip with one end thereof yieldably maintainedagainst the base when the same is in operative position, and a detentformed on the base for piercing the hat.

4. In a hook holding hatband having a exible strip adapted tocircumscribe the crown of a hat and means for securing together the endsof said strip and for drawing one side thereof against the crown of thehat; a plurality of resilient wire supports mounted on the strip, eachadapted to releasably carry a fish-hook or the like, each of saidsupports comprising a base threaded through the strip; and a ngerdisposed transversely to the strip with one end thereof yieldablymaintained against the base when the same is in operative position, saidbody having a sharpened portion at one end thereof for piercing the hatat a point beneath said strip.

5. In a hook holding hatband having a flexible fabric strip adapted tocircumscribe the crown of a hat and means for securing together the endsof said strip and for drawing one side thereof against the crown of thehat; a plurality of resilient wire supports mounted on the strip, eachadapted to releasably carry a sh-hook or the like, each of said supportscomprising a continuous piece of wire forming a base intermediate itsends that is threaded through said strip, a finger on one end of thewire, disposed transversely to the strip and yieldably held against thebase when the same is in the operative position; and a detent formed onthe other end of the wire, extending outwardly from the strip and intothe underlying portion of the hat.

6. A hook holding hatband comprising a exible strip adapted tocircumscribe the crown of a hat; sharp pointed detents adapted to piercethe hat extending laterally from one side of the strip; a plurality ofhook supports mounted on the other side of the strip; and means forsecuring the ends of said band together to draw the points of saiddetents against the hat.

7. In a hook holding hatband having a flexible strip adapted tocircumscribe the crown of a hat and means for securing together the endsof said strip for drawing one side thereof against the crown of the hat;a plurality of resilient wire supports mounted on the strip, eachadapted to releasably carry a fish-hook or the like, each of saidsupports comprising a wire body having a base threaded through saidexible strip, a resilient finger on one side of the strip having a humpnormally in engagement with the base, and a sharpened nger extendingoutwardly and upwardly from the other side of the strip and into thecrown of the hat, said first nger having an upwardly and inwardlyinclined portion between the hump thereof and said sharpened fingerwhereby as a fish-hook or the like is guided along said inclined portionand beneath the hump said pointed finger is forced into the crown of thehat to maintain the hatband in place.

CHARLES F. WALTHOUR, JR.

